Tetro

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  • Opened June 11, 2009 
  • R | some sexuality, nudity and language
  • When teenage Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) arrives in Argentina to look for his long-estranged brother, Tetro (Vincent Gallo), he finds not the idolized sibling from his youth, but a tormented and self-destructive soul who has abandoned his brilliant career as a writer. After Tetro rejects him, Bennie risks his brother's wrath by secretly completing one of his plays and submitting it for consideration for a prestigious literary prize. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Director: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Genres: Drama

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| Calvin Wilson

Shot mostly in black and white and imbued with a romanticism that's at once nostalgic and exhilarating, Tetro sneaks up on you. What threatens to be a mere exercise in style proves to be as involving as it is inventive. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Carrie Rickey

The result is visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

A family melodrama with charm. Read full review

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Vincent Gallo as Tetro in "Tetro."